Veritas Wine Bar

Like hearts, wineglasses are fragile, full of goodness, and frequently broken. Live life to the brim with today’s Groupon: for $20, you get $40 worth of wine and small plates at Veritas Wine Bar.

Evocative aromas ascend from swirling chalices at Veritas Wine Bar, a brick-walled lounge where sommeliers pair more than 70 wines by the glass with a menu of cheese and charcuterie plates. Grape-infused elixirs gush from a temperature-controlled tap system, ensuring uniform sips unmarred by sudden climate shifts or clumsy fire breathers. Reds and whites from Italy, South Africa, and New Zealand slosh into individual glasses ($8+) or join forces to create flights, such as the Lost in La Mancha’s trio of robust Spanish libations ($15). Globetrotting artisanal cheeses ($12 for three) fall under four categories—blue, cow, goat, and sheep—and deliciously mingle with charcuterie selections ($12 for two) that include dry-cured pork salami or mousse truffee, a decadent marriage of chicken liver, madeira wine, and black truffle. Sippers can scrawl an appetizing epilogue across the evening’s feast by noshing on chocolate morsels ($2 each) laced with slow-cooked caramel or pistachio butter, which silence petulant sweet teeth without preemptively donning a bedtime retainer.

Veritas Wine Bar

Evocative aromas ascend from swirling chalices at Veritas Wine Bar, a brick-walled lounge where sommeliers pair more than 70 wines by the glass with a menu of cheese and charcuterie plates. Grape-infused elixirs gush from a temperature-controlled tap system, ensuring uniform sips unmarred by sudden climate shifts or clumsy fire breathers. Reds and whites from Italy, South Africa, and New Zealand slosh into individual glasses or join forces to create flights. Globetrotting artisanal cheeses fall under four categories—blue, cow, goat, and sheep—and deliciously mingle with charcuterie selections. Sippers can scrawl an appetizing epilogue across the evening’s feast by noshing on chocolate morsels laced with slow-cooked caramel or pistachio butter, which silence petulant sweet teeth without preemptively donning a bedtime retainer.